US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Sept. 23 for "Iron-nitride magnet by nitriding a porous structure" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,358, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Iron-nitride magnet by nitriding a porous structure" was invented by Jian-Ping Wang (Shoreview, Minn.), Jinming Liu (Minneapolis), Bin Ma (Roseville, Minn.), Fan Zhang (Minneapolis), Guannan Guo (Minneapolis), Yiming Wu (Shoreview, Minn.) and Xiaowei Zhang (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the disclosure is directed to bulk iron-nitride materials having a polycrystalline microstructure having pores including a plurality of crystallographic grains surrounded by grain boundaries, where at least one crystallographic gra...